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ABOUT a year ago there was some correspondence on this subject in NATURE. I mentioned (February 17, 1923, p. 220) that a stoat frequenting our flower garden had assumed white pelage during the winter of 1921–22, which was unusually mild. The present winter has been equally so thus far; we had eight and nine degrees of frost on two successive nights in November, and scarcely any since. A stoat has been hunting mice in the garden again this season; if it is not the same individual as before, it is probably of near kin to the other, but its coat is all brown at this date.
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MAXWELL, H. The Stoat's Winter Pelage. Nature 113, 196 (1924). https://doi.org/10.1038/113196b0
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